The Social Construction of Technological Systems: New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology

Item Type Book Author Wiebe E. Bijker Author Thomas Parke Hughes Author Trevor J. Pinch Author Trevor Pinch Publisher MIT Press ISBN 978-0-262-52137-6 Date 1989 Extra Google-Books-ID: SUCtOwns7TEC Library Catalog Google Books Language en Abstract Frontmatter Preface General Introduction 1 Common Themes in Sociological and Historical Studies of Technology Introduction The Social Construction of Facts and Artifacts: Or How the Sociology of Science and the Sociology of Technology Might Benefit Each Other The Evolutions of Large Technological Systems Society in the Making: The Study of Technology as a Tool for Sociological Analysis 2 Simplifying the Complexity Introduction Technology and Heterogeneous Engineering: The Case of Portuguese Expansion The Nelson-Winter-Dosi Model and Synthetic Dye Chemistry The Social Construction of Bakelite: Toward a Theory of Invention 3 Strategic Research Sites Introduction Missile Accuracy: A Case Study in the Social Processes of Technological Change The Social Locus of Technological Practice Regulatory Science and the Social Management of Trust in Medicine The Consumption Juncion: A Proposal for Research Strategies in the Sociology of Technology Seeing with Sound: A Study of the Development of Medical Images 4 Technology and Beyond Introduction Reconstructing Man and Machine: A Note on Sociological Crtiques of cognitiveism Expert Systems and the Science of Knowledge References Contributors Name Index Subject Index. Short Title The Social Construction of Technological Systems # of Pages 428